Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c5.s2.t1.91

c5.s2.t1.91

⁴ Jalal-ud-din Khalji used red parasols for public audiences, but put away this ‘symbol of wrath’ on other occasions, when he preferred to use white parasols (*vide* D.R., 67; K.K., 883 : T.F.I., 154). Earlier, Sultan Mu‘izz-ud-din Kaiqubad used parasols of different colours on different occasions—black, red, white, green, and pink. His parasol was also fringed with pearls (*vide* Q.S., 20, 57). I may note in this connection that Raverty’s rendering of the term *chatr* as ‘canopy’ is incorrect. The original term ‘chatr’ occurs in many places, among others in *Tabaqat-i-Nasiri*, (M.S.), 178, and can hardly be rendered otherwise than as ‘parasol’. The term ‘canopy’ is more appropriate for *Sayaban*. ‘The parasol’, as Rawlinson remarks, ‘which has always been in the east a mark of dignity, seems in Persia, as in Assyria, to have been confined either by law or usage to the King (Five, etc. etc., III. 206). Compare also Temple’s note on p. 210 in ‘Lalla’ on the use of ‘Chowrie and Umbrella’ among Hindus. Compare also A.M., 76b.